[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 137 (Saturday, September 28, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11598]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 NO ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR 104TH CONGRESS

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I listened to my Republican colleagues 
outside the Capitol yesterday saying how they are going to go home and 
tout their commonsense accomplishments. I would say that nothing could 
be further from the truth. Looking at the Congress and the Republican 
leadership, they shut down the Government twice for nearly an entire 
month, wasting $1.4 billion of taxpayers' money. They abandoned a 
balanced budget by essentially proposing extreme proposals for tax 
breaks that would primarily benefit wealthy Americans.
  They voted for the largest education cuts in history, essentially 
abandoning our Nation's children. They undermined crime fighting 
efforts by voting to kill the COPS initiatives by the President that 
would put 100,000 new policemen on the streets, and they voted to roll 
back 25 years of bipartisan progress on environmental protection.
  These are the accomplishments of the 104th Congress, and as far as I 
am concerned, the sooner the Gingrich Congress is put to rest, the 
better.

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